Category: Ohio

Today we continued East 150 miles to Geneva State Park on Lake Erie in Geneva, OH. We waited until noon to leave the Toledo East/Stony Ridge KOA since check-in here was at 3PM. We made a couple of stops along the way and arrived around 4PM EDT.

We splurged for a site along the shore with full hookups. Tonight’s sunset was well worth every cent. We have full hookups and very few trees allowing our Dish antenna to pickup satellites 61.5, 110, & 119. Our AT&T hotspot connection is receiving decent connectivity at 25/5 Mbps download/upload speeds. We didn’t try our TV antenna, but we are close enough to Cleveland that I imagine we would pickup a lot of channels.

Today we began our migration East. It was a short trip (110 miles), but got us moving again after three wonderful weeks in LaGrange. We are staying at the Toledo East/Stony Ridge KOA. We were shocked to get a spot on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, but at least five other transient campers have arrived since we set up camp.

This is a nice KOA with decently spaced sites. We were able to setup our Dish satellite antenna and receive signals from satellites 110 & 119. We are still within the range of the satellite spot beam for South Bend which allows us to receive their local channels (preventing us from being blacked out on today’s Rays victory in nearby Cleveland). They do have Wi-Fi here and it seems somewhat consistent, but only at 1/1 Mbps download/upload speeds. Our AT&T hotspot connection is receiving decent connectivity at 27/0.5 Mbps download/upload speeds. We were also able to receive over 40 channels on antenna allowing us to watch the LSU vs Florida State football game in HD on a local channel.

Today we left the state of New York and migrated further west. We left The Ridge Campground, headed south and picked up I-86 West until we hit I-90 near Erie, PA. The only campground we could find with Saturday night availability was just across the state line in Ohio. We are staying at Evergreen Lake Park campground. There are a lot of permanent campers here, but all the sites are clean and well kept although I do feel like a bit of an outsider not having my golf car here (lots of carts going by). Once again, in order to have full hookups (so we can dump our tanks), we had to take a 30 Amp site. Today was the hottest day of the summer so far for a good share of the country, but fortunately this site is well shaded and the camper cooled down quickly once we parked and closed up all of the curtains. On another positive note, I was able to program R2D2 (our portable satellite antenna) to access the Dish Western Arc and find a spot on our site to place it and access two of the three satellites. Fortunately one of them is the satellite with Fox Sports Sun so that we could watch the Rays vs White Sox game. Tomorrow we will head on into my hometown (LaGrange, IN).

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